D.C. Reporter is Latest ‘Opportunistic’ Fox Hiring

By Andrew Gauthier 

The Washington Post

Don’t panic. Fox is hiring.

The leading cable news network and its business news offshoot, Fox Business Network, have made a habit of signing up reporters and media personalities who’ve found themselves on the wrong side in employee-employer spats. For Fox, it seems, the more controversy the better.

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This week, the network welcomed a new Washington reporter, Doug McKelway, who is actually an old Washington reporter. The veteran anchor spent the past 18 years at two stations in town (Channels 4 and 7) before his local-news career blew up over the summer. More…

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